Varieties of Reason

Four distinguishable varieties of 'Reason' can be termed 'Distributive', 'Progressive', Totalizing', and 'Unifying'.  The first entails a transition from an individual to a universe of individuals.  The second is distribution qua increase.  The third is progression to an inherent maximum.  The fourth is a transition from a manifold to an individual.  Examples of the four are the processes of, respectively, dispersion, emanation, organization, and contraction.  Now, while Hegelian Reason appears to organize, it is contractive, since, all its developments are eventually revealed as moments in the achievement of the self-consciousness of one entity, Universal Spirit.  In contrast, Kant's principle of Pure Practical Reason seems to elude conclusive classification.  For, as has been previously discussed, there are grounds for interpreting it as Distributive, as Progressive, and/or as Totalizing, while Hegel contributes the further possibility that it is a unifying ruse of Universal Spirit.  Hence, Kant seems less certain of the nature of Reason than Hegel is, though, of course, if Schopenhauer is correct, what the four varieties have in common is that they are each, alike, illusory.